Decades Later, an Arrest in Lufthansa Heist

One Man Is Charged in the Infamous 'Goodfellas' Caper, Four Others in Different Crimes

Updated Jan. 24, 2014 10:11 a.m. ET

NEW YORK—When masked gunmen robbed $6 million worth of cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa Airlines cargo hold at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport in 1978, investigators immediately suspected the mafia.

On Thursday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said they arrested a member of the Bonanno crime family who prosecutors allege was involved in the robbery that became known as the Lufthansa heist—said at the time to be...